Gopakumar–Vafa invariants via vanishing cycles

In this paper, we propose an ansatz for defining Gopakumar–Vafa invariants of Calabi–Yau threefolds, using perverse sheaves of vanishing cycles. Our proposal is a modification of a recent approach of Kiem–Li, which is itself based on earlier ideas of Hosono–Saito–Takahashi. We conjecture that these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maulik, Davesh, Toda, Yukinobu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Published: Springer-Verlag 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115873
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7525-318X